answer Identify the scientist who became the director of the Manhattan Project, which created the atomic bomb
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An Introduction to the Manhattan Project During World War II, American physicists and engineers began a race against Nazi Germany to create the first atomic bomb. This secret four-year endeavor (1942-1945) was code-named “the Manhattan Project,” named for one of the initial sites of research, Columbia University in Manhattan, New York.n 1942, Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer suggested the remote area of Los Alamos in New Mexico. General Groves approved the site and construction began at the end of 1942. Oppenheimer became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory (known as “Project Y”).
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What was the purpose of the manhattan project? The Manhattan project was an initiative undertaken by president Franklin Roosevelt, to build an atomic bomb. It was going to be used against Nazi Germany, supposedly only if they developed nuclear weapons (which of course was a a great fear at the time).
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The Manhattan Project The program that developed the atomic bomb for the United States during World War II was the largest secret project ever undertaken by the U.S. government. The project was originally named Development of Substitute Materials, but there was concern that the name was too suggestive of its real purpose. section of land near Alamogordo, in south-central New Mexico was chosen and code-named Trinity. On July 16, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the detonation of the first atomic bomb. The explosion created a crater which measured nearly 2,400 feet across and was equivalent to about 20,000 tons of TNT.
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- Through sources in the Manhattan Project, notably Klaus Fuchs, the Soviet intelligence obtained important information on the progress of the United States atomic bomb effort. Intelligence reports were shown to the head of the Soviet atomic project and had a significant impact on the direction of Soviet research.he Soviets accelerated the program after the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet atomic project was charged with gathering intelligence on the German nuclear energy project as well as the American nuclear efforts.
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- However, the man who is generaly regarded as the father of the A-bomb is J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the Manhattan Project in the United States, which produced the first ever nuclear weapon.eo Szilard invented the nuclear reactor and nuclear bomb in London in 1933, shortly after the neutron was discovered as an improved source of neutrons for experiments. He was also very aware of their potential destructive effects. He was not able to build either at the time because of lack of a suitable material.
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Truman is briefed on Manhattan Project America’s secret development of the atomic bomb began in 1939 with then-President Franklin Roosevelt’s support. The project was so secret that FDR did not even inform his fourth-term vice president, Truman, that it existed.
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51f. The Manhattan Project The main assembly plant was built at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Robert Oppenheimer was put in charge of putting the pieces together at Los Alamos. After the final bill was tallied, nearly $2 billion had been spent on research and development of the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project employed over 120,000 Americans.
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Atomic Bomb Atomic Bomb. The atomic bomb was first used in warfare at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and the bomb played a key role in ending World War Two. The atomic bomb (A bomb), created via the Manhattan Project, was first exploded at the top secret base of Alamogordo on July 16th, 1945.A reconstruction of ‘Little Boy’ at the Imperial War Museum. The bomb that dropped on Hiroshima was code-named ‘Little Boy’.The amount of energy ‘Little Boy’ generated when it exploded was the equivalent of a 15 kiloton TNT explosion – yet the above photograph shows that the bomb itself was relatively small despite its huge explosive capability.he atomic bomb (A bomb), created via the Manhattan Project, was first exploded at the top secret base of Alamogordo on July 16th, 1945.
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- Find short, descriptive links to many of the important documents surrounding the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan here. The highlight of this website is a convincing interview with Dr. Leo Szilard, one of the scientists on the Manhattan Project, predicting the use of the bomb would start the arms race with the Soviet Union. Report broken link
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51f. The Manhattan Project By the summer of 1945, Oppenheimer was ready to test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb.The device was affixed to a 100-foot tower and discharged just before dawn.y the summer of 1945, Oppenheimer was ready to test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945, at Trinity Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. The device was affixed to a 100-foot tower and discharged just before dawn.
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What Is The Manhattan Project? In 1938 many people feared that Hitler would build an atomic bomb after word spread that German scientist had split the uranium atom (fission). However, one of Hitlers mistakes was his persecution of Jewish scientists.This persecution resulted in numerous scientists seeking asylum in the United States.n 1945 the United States covert operation known as The Manhattan Project achieved its goal-to create the first atomic bomb. Since its inception in 1939, scientist had struggled to find a way to harness the power of fission.
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The Cold War Museum Atomic Bomb Development Summary (II) Article 2 of 2. On August 2nd 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter which was addressed to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the letter, Einstein revealed that the German government had been working with Uranium with the hope of developing atomic weapons.
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- The name Manhattan Project was the code word for the development of the atomic bomb. On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The weapon was later used against the Japanese to end World War II.anhattan Project, the wartime effort to design and build the first nuclear weapons (atomic bombs). With the discovery of fission in 1939, it became clear to scientists that certain radioactive materials could be used to make a bomb of unprecented power.
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Nuclear arms race The Soviet Union was not informed officially of the Manhattan Project until Stalin was briefed at the Potsdam Conference on July 24, 1945, by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, eight days after the first successful test of a nuclear weapon.orbachev proposed a 50% reduction of nuclear weapons for both the U.S and Soviet Union at the meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland in October 1986. However, the proposal was refused due to disagreements over Reagan's SDI.
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Truman is briefed on Manhattan Project President Harry Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb, on this day in 1945. The information thrust upon Truman a momentous decision: whether or not to use the world’s first weapon of mass destruction.
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This Month in Physics History Chadwick, whose discovery of the neutron had paved the way for the atomic bomb, worked on the Manhattan Project during WWII. He died in 1974. ©1995 - 2018, american physical society
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Who discovered atomic bomb? The bomb was discovered Albert Einstein The bomb was created by physicist J.Robert Oppenheimer. Source(s): http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/200... http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinve...http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_discovered...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer.he bomb was discovered Albert Einstein The bomb was created by physicist J.Robert Oppenheimer. Source(s): http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/200... http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinve... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_discovered... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer.
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-  Born out of a small research program in 1939, the Manhattan Project  eventually employed more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2  billion USD ($23 billion in 2007 dollars based on CPI).It resulted  in the creation of multiple production and research sites that  operated in secret.he Manhattan Project officially started on 28 June 1941. This was  the date that President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order that  created the Office of Scientific Resea … rch and Development. It began  research on that date into atomic weapons.
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- Manhattan Project, the U.S. effort in World War II that developed the atomic bomb. The possibility of developing an atomic bomb became evident late in 1938 when scientists in Germany successfully split a uranium atom by bombarding it with neutrons.eginning in June 1942 during World War II, the United States' Manhattan Project brought together scientists and military experts to create the world's first atomic bomb.
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Marie Curie Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist. Curie was a pioneer of radioactivity, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911.Curie never worked on the Manhattan Project, but her contributions to the study of radium and radiation was an instrumental technology for the future development of the atomic bomb.urie was a pioneer of radioactivity, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Curie never worked on the Manhattan Project, but her contributions to the study of radium and radiation was an instrumental technology for the future development of the atomic bomb.
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Manhattan Project American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the scientific research of the Manhattan Project. Born out of a small research programme in 1939, the Manhattan Project's roots lay in the United States’ fears that, since the 1930s, Nazi Germany had been trying to develop nuclear weapons.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of four laboratories involved in the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bomb.
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The Cold War Museum Unaware of the intricacies surrounding the atomic bomb development in the United States, Harry Truman was briefed by presidential advisers concerning the confidential Manhattan Project two weeks after FDR’s death.naware of the intricacies surrounding the atomic bomb development in the United States, Harry Truman was briefed by presidential advisers concerning the confidential Manhattan Project two weeks after FDR’s death.
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The Cold War Museum In June of 1942 the War Department’s Army Corps of Engineers took charge of the effort to develop an atomic bomb. The subsequent top-secret project (code named Manhattan) cultivated a complex, but cooperative relationship between science, industry, the government, and the army.
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51f. The Manhattan Project In fact, Vice-President Truman had never heard of the Manhattan Project until he became President Truman. Although the Axis powers remained unaware of the efforts at Los Alamos, American leaders later learned that a Soviet spy named Klaus Fuchs had penetrated the inner circle of scientists.